{"product_id":"9781458705938","title":"Pragmatism and Other Writings","description":"A collection of defining documents from one of America's most influential thinkers. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarked by a rare combination of penetrating thought and virtuosic style, the writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most engaging formulation of American pragmatism. This collection presents \u003ci\u003ePragmatism\u003c\/i\u003e in its entirety, James's seminal set of lectures in which he argues in his witty and limpid style for the \"reasonableness of ordinary experience.\" Also gathered here are selections from James's other formative works, including \u003ci\u003eThe Meaning of Truth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePsychology\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Will to Believe\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTalks to Teachers on Psychology\u003c\/i\u003e. Throughout these essays the fecund power of imagination is restored to the operations of rationality by James, whom George Santayana hailed as \"an impulsive poet: a master in the art of recording or divining the lyric quality of experience.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEdited with an Introduction and Notes by Giles Gunn \u003cp\u003e Older brother of novelist Henry James, William James (1842-1910) was a philosopher, psychologist, physiologist, and professor at Harvard. An important professor of Gertrude Stein's, James has influenced such twentieth-century thinkers as John Dewey, Richard Rorty, Jurgen Habermas, Michel Foucault, and Julia Kristeva.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGiles Gunn is Professor of English and of Global and International Studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is author of \u003ci\u003eCulture of Criticism \u0026amp; Criticism of Culture\u003c\/i\u003e as well as editor of the Penguin Classics volume \u003ci\u003eEarly American Writing\u003c\/i\u003e.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ReadHowYouWant","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140882579696,"sku":"9781458705938","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781458705938_p0.jpg?v=1763860998","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781458705938","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}